Chapter 2

The tour was almost a week later. But I had started preparing for it. Our school had given us a guidebook for the five of us, we had to maintain those rules. Our school has increased its strictness in the last few days after a boy was

caught bringing cigars and champaigns to a field trip.

Just before the trip, I mean on the day before the trip, our school was having the orchestra and every student was cordially invited to it. Every alternate year our school holds an orchestra. In our field, a humongous stage is built and

many students participate in different events, such as orchestra, vocals, etc.

I wasn’t participating this year, but I thought it would be good to visit it, after seeing the efforts the school was putting into it. Actually, I also had intentions for participating in it, before I received the exams of this exams, but then when the school wasn’t sure when the results would actually come, they decided that the students in the Europe trip won’t participate in the orchestra as the two dates might happen to overlap. But it didn’t turn out that way and now it was probably too late for another selection.

But then again, I was extremely happy with what I had got. Em is actually a great fan of Michael Jackson and if really, I would say that he has indeed got the talent of dance. So, he was pretty much upset that he won’ be able to

participate in the hip hop show in on our show day.

Three other members were also accompanying us to Europe – Stephanie, Eric and Chris. I was actually surprised to see the twin brothers getting qualified. But then again, they were extremely good at studies.

Five days later…

The performance of the orchestra was really amazing and the standing ovation from a crowd of seven thousand people really proved it.

We had already started packing up for our trips. The school was also busy packing things. My parents ran around the house like ghosts as they were pretty much excited as I could see.  They had almost packed the whole house. But I got really frightened when mom went as far as packing a chair in my bag. Although, it was a compact foldable one. We were going to go there by airplane, but you believe it or not, it would be my first time travelling by plane. We have not visited far places so we generally travel in our car.

I liked drawing very much and sure enough, I knew that Europe would be a perfect place to draw things, so, I did not forget to take my sketchbook and the digital pen.

We were allowed to bring our electronic devices, so my parents gave me a brand-new phone, which was bought a few months back. Other than that, I took my laptop. It would come in handy for watching YouTube videos late at night. Our trip would begin two days later so, I figured that I could manage without it till then.

There were five of us and as we were informed there would be five teachers as well and one field trip in charge.  We would take a flight from the city airport on 10th November. According to the guide book, we would visit 4 cities. Of them, our first destination would be Amsterdam. We were going to visit two relaxing places and two educational ones.

On 9th November… 

I was really excited about the next day. Many things were going to be a first for me, riding an airplane for starters, and on top of that, visiting a foreign country. It may not look like it but it was the first time I was visiting a foreign land. It was practically the same it showed in the movies, I couldn't sleep. I would have literally stayed up all night if mom had not made me a warm cup of milk.

Finally, …

Mom and dad both took me to my school and we reached there sharp at 2:00 pm, as we were asked. We would stay there for one hour to check out for things and then at 3 o'clock, we would depart for the airport, for reaching which it would take us one hour and then we would wait for our flight at 5:45.

The organisation had counted it that many students would not make it. So, as I had overheard from the in charge, there were a total of around seventy to seventy-five students from different schools, meaning that there were around fourteen to fifteen schools. Emm arrived five minutes. He had packed his luggage within 2 bags while I had a small bag, a bag pack and one trolley bag. He said that he hadn’t packed up much as all he needed was a laptop. He didn’t bring anything much of books or notebooks. For all I knew, even though he is extremely good at sports, he has got a knack for writing.

I hadn’t had much food as mom told me that it would be nauseating in the airplane if I ate too much, but still, I had backup snacks in my backpack, just in case.

We waited in the canteen with each other while our teachers checked things out for the final time. It was 3:13 pm when two of our buses took us to the airport. One of the buses had us and teachers inside it while the other had the luggage. We reached the airport by the time we had expected.

Now almost all five of us were pretty hungry so the teachers took us to the lounge where we all had some snacks and the teachers had sodas. For the next one and a half hours, we all spent our time reading some books, magazines and the guidebook.

Unlike me, Emm had ridden on a plane quite often because of his father’s business trips so he guided things out for me. He told me to keep my boarding pass safe otherwise it would be a hassle.

We all had submitted our big bags. Ten minutes before the flight we were taken to the plane by air-conditioned buses. From our area, two schools were taking the trip including ours. So, there was a total of ten of us. There were three seats on one side and Emm had the outermost seat while I had the middle seat. On the window seat was a girl from the other school. It was really cold in the plane; I could barely take my hands out of my pockets.

The flight duration was about fifteen hours. We had a lot of time. I figured that I had charged my phone completely and my laptop so, it would help me out to survive this long flight. The flight took off at roughly 5:50 pm.

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